Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which… — Richard Digance Copy Share Image
“Always pay homage to the soldier, and the harlot, for they are the martyrs of humanity’s growth” — Michael Lieber Copy Share Image
Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Take a minute. Pause. Stop doing, and simply be...This moment. Think, here, now. This moment will never occur again. This moment is… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature — John Locke Copy Share Image
“After having grown up surrounded by so much manufactured beauty, Amara had come to want something different. Something that wasn't necessarily beautiful.… — Morgan Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Plotinus, when he thinks about mind or intellect, the Greek word is 'nous', he thinks about something that's very different, it's much… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be. It's wrong to say "everybody," but… — James Salter Copy Share Image
